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◇ Catalog #72

Empty the Pits

ktk·#72·mythic·foil

Illus. Ryan Alexander Lee

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Sep '14

12 yr ago

Value

$2.72+$0 (+4.2%)

30 days high $1.78 · low $1.62

NM$1.72

LP—

MP—

HP—

DMG—

$1.59–$1.82modeled

30 days ago
today

90-dayhigh $1.74low $0.03range 5700.0%n 45

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #14,020 · Fringe play

Variants

Foil$1.72

Nonfoil$0.85

Gameplay

Instant

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

The Sultai would rebuild the empire on the backs of the dead.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDHnot legal

Rulings · 3

2021-03-19wotc

Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.

2021-03-19wotc

You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

2021-03-19wotc

Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.

Context

Last observed on Scryfall 2 months ago at $1.72. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $1.74 across 45 observations. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.

This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from KTK — the lineup includes Foil and Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #72 of *Khans of Tarkir*, the set that shipped alongside the September 2014 Khans of Tarkir release.

Card type: Instant, color identity black, printed at mythic. Mythic rares historically land in roughly one out of every eight boosters at standard print densities. Mana cost: {X}{X}{B}{B}{B}{B} (4 converted). Keyword abilities: Delve.

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #14,020 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Ryan Alexander Lee. Rarix catalogs 218 other cards credited to this artist.